Date and time: Monday, January 27, 2025. 6:30-9:30 pm PDT
Location: Online via Zoom; registrants will receive a link via email.
Cost: $18 (includes $6 class fee and $12 materials fee). Registrants will have instructions and a kit for one basket mailed to them - you will fill out your mailing address at checkout.
Instructor: Chris Bush
Maximum number of students: 12
Student skill level: All
Tools needed: Ruler, basket shears, needle for waxed linen, a clip or two, spray bottle, and tub of water for soaking reed.
Description: In this class you will weave a miniature market-style basket with reed. The skills you will learn are: creating an open weave base, continuous weave for the sides, a reed handle, and lashing the rim with waxed linen. Your completed piece will be about 2-1/2” wide and tall, plus handle.
We strongly encourage you to have a second (smartphone) camera over your workspace for demonstration, questions, and problem solving. This greatly aids the instructor, as well as helping you. You can use the DIY camera stand.
Register online, by clicking “add to cart” below.
Please note: This class is for CBBG members only. If you are not a Guild member, but would like to become one, click here.
The last day to register or to get a refund is Friday, January 3, 2025. If the class fills, and you would like to be put on the wait list, please email ColumbiaBasinBasketryGuild@gmail.com
About Your Instructor - Artist/Weaver Chris Bush of Twisted Fibers
Basketry
Chris made her first basket in February 2011, and became hooked on the craft. It gave her a way to get away from the hectic day-to-day stressors and just enjoy creating. In 2018 she established Twisted Fibers Basketry and now shares this craft with weaving students in Oregon and Washington. You can find her up at the community college teaching classes many Saturdays, or in her home studio preparing for class or designing and creating something new to share with others that love this craft.